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GILBERT, Ariz. -- A bride was arrested after she reportedly kicked a police officer who arrived to break up a fight at her wedding reception.

Gilbert police officers responded to a home in the 3200 block of South 147th Place at approximately 9:30 p.m. Saturday after receiving a call. Yelling and screaming could be heard in the background, according to Sgt. Bill Balafas with the Gilbert Police Department.

ALBANY -- A 24-year-old Colonie man who used Facebook to meet hundreds of teenage girls was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in state prison for raping four of the girls in his home.

David Bradt pleaded guilty in January to four counts of third-degree rape for having sex with the underage victims -- ages 15 and 16 -- in his Maplewood Avenue home between July 2 and Oct. 10. His plea deal called for between 12 and 13 years in prison.

1. Greene, NY: It's against the law to eat peanuts and walk backwards down the street while a concert is playing.

SAINT PETERSBURG (AFP) – Anti-terrorist bomb squad experts were called to a post office in the northwest of Russia to make safe a package from which a strange ticking sound was coming, local police said Monday.

PARIS (AFP) – A French court has banned a company set up by a descendant of King Louis XIV from selling luxury condoms described as from the southwestern town of Condom, the town's lawyer said on Wednesday.

The court in the nearby city of Bordeaux banned "the continued sale of condoms under the brand 'The Original Condom from Condom, France,'" said Caroline Lampre, lawyer for the picturesque town of 7,500.

SCOTTDALE, Pa. – Police say a western Pennsylvania man left his sleeping 4-year-old son home alone while he went outside and prentended to be a ninja warrior.Online court records show 28-year-old Ross Hurst, of Scottdale, has applied for a public defender but has yet to be appointed one.The Daily Courier of Connellsville reports Hurst was charged March 3 after police found him outside about 1:30 a.m. dressed all in black and "playing ninja" on a borough street. Scottdale is about 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.Police say Scott told them his mother was watching the child, but the boy's grandmother said Hurst never asked her to babysit.Hurst's listed telephone is not in service. He faces a preliminary hearing March 30 on a charge of endangering the welfare of a child.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – More than 200 people have been arrested during Rio's Carnival that is under way for relieving themselves in the street, underlining authorities' determination to clean up the city that will be host to the 2016 Olympic Games.

Chicago (Reuters) - Missing chunks of DNA responsible for turning genes on and off help explain some key differences between chimpanzees and humans -- including why humans have big brains and why the human penis is not covered with prickly spines, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.

The study, published in the journal Nature, reinforces the notion that genes that control the activity of other genes play a big role in what makes humans so different from other mammals.